Very overrated, but still great. I can't quite figure out why fans seem to
unanimously agree that this is the best pre-"Tired Sounds" album. While it's great, I
barely listen to it, as Per Aspera is similar, but better.

My absolute favourite ambient album, though I there are a few others I would
consider to be "better." My personal connection with this one came about in 2009
when I took four months to backpack. I had a week of volunteering on the
Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. It was hard work, but every day we got "siesta" from
12-2. I would pick out my favourite hammock, grab my over-ear headphones, play
this album, and just drift away - the warm, tropical air breezing softly, banana and
palm trees dotting the foreground, the blue Pacific ocean stretching out as far as
the eye could see. It was pure bliss, like I've never experienced before or since.

Not my favourite by them - not quite - but their best, in my opinion. While the
album is massive in length, not one moment manages to feel like filler. The entire
album washes over me in a way that very little music can do. If everyone in the
world was required to listen to this album once a week, we'd have peace on Earth.

"He utilizes ultra-low frequencies (infrasound — frequencies below 20 Hz, which have been known to cause feelings of awe or fear). Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypts, caves, and slaughterhouses, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibetan horns"

haha that sounds like a good rec for someone who's digging Stars of the Lid ya fuckin chode-licker